Photo Retouching for Advertising Still Lifes

A course by Karina Meza , Photographer and digital retoucher

Photographer and digital retoucher. Tulsa, Chile.
Joined February 2017

Learn to use Photoshop to enhance the features of products for commercial or creative reasons

  • Spanish with subtitles in English
  • 100% positive reviews (118)
  • 2088 students

Learn to use Photoshop to enhance the features of products for commercial or creative reasons

A course by Karina Meza

Highlighting the visual potential of a good image with volume, textures, color and lighting is the main objective of photo retouching. Karina Meza is a photographer and digital retoucher specializing in touch-up of advertising still lifes and has worked for photographers, advertising agencies, magazines and retail , such as Falabella, Riplay, Paris, among others.

In this course you will learn different techniques to touch up a product still life in Adobe Photoshop in two ways: one advertising and one creative.

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What will you learn in this online course?

16 lessons & 18 downloads

What will we do in the course
1 minute, 49 seconds
Preparing the project
5 minutes, 50 seconds
Reference Search
6 minutes, 22 seconds
File development in Camera Raw
11 minutes, 34 seconds
Photoshop key tools
12 minutes, 56 seconds
Spanish with subtitles in English
  • 100% positive reviews (118)
  • 2088 students
  • 16 lessons (2h 25m)
  • 18 additional resources (8 files)
  • Online and at your own pace
  • Available on the app
  • Audio: Spanish
  • Spanish, English, Portuguese, German, Italian, French, Polish, Dutch
  • Level: Beginner
  • Unlimited access forever

What is this course's project?

You will make the complete touch-up of the still life of a product of advertising beauty, and a more creative version of it.

Projects by course students

Who is this online course for?

This course is aimed at photographers, designers and people who want to learn specific techniques of product retouching.

Requirements and materials

You must have basic knowledge of Adobe Photoshop, layer management and masks.
On the materials, you will need a computer with Photoshop installed and also, a digital tablet, although it is not essential.


Reviews

2088 Students
118 Reviews
100% Positive ratings

Karina Meza

A course by Karina Meza

Teacher Plus
Photographer and digital retoucher

Chilean photographer by profession with more than 15 years fully dedicated to digital retouching, a job she learned in a self-taught way. From its beginnings it was dedicated exclusively to the retouching of product, fashion and different advertising campaigns. Thanks to this, he has worked directly with clients, as well as with agencies, producers and photographers.

He has also been teaching for more than 10 years, teaching photographic postproduction in the careers of Design, Art, Advertising and Photography.


Content

  • U1

    Introduction

    • Presentation
    • Influences
    • What will we do in the course
  • U2

    Project Preparation

    • What we want and for what purpose
    • Preparing the project
    • Reference Search
  • U3

    Digital image

    • File development in Camera Raw
    • Photoshop key tools
    • Frequency separation
    • General cleaning
  • U4

    Postproduction

    • Rebuilding the logo
    • Highlighting and creating glare and reflections
    • Color settings
    • Focus adjustment
    • Editorial or creative version
    • Exporting files
  • FP

    Final project

    • Photo retouching techniques for advertising still life

What to expect from a Domestika course

  • Learn at your own pace

    Enjoy learning from home without a set schedule and with an easy-to-follow method. You set your own pace.

  • Learn from the best professionals

    Learn valuable methods and techniques explained by top experts in the creative sector.

  • Meet expert teachers

    Each expert teaches what they do best, with clear guidelines, true passion, and professional insight in every lesson.

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  • Share knowledge and ideas

    Ask questions, request feedback, or offer solutions. Share your learning experience with other students in the community who are as passionate about creativity as you are.

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FAQs

Domestika's courses are online classes that provide you with the tools and skills you need to complete a specific project. Every step of the project combines video lessons with complementary instructional material, so you can learn by doing. Domestika's courses also allow you to share your own projects with the teacher and with other students, creating a dynamic course community.

All courses are 100% online, so once they're published, courses start and finish whenever you want. You set the pace of the class. You can go back to review what interests you most and skip what you already know, ask questions, answer questions, share your projects, and more.

The courses are divided into different units. Each one includes lessons, informational text, tasks, and practice exercises to help you carry out your project step by step, with additional complementary resources and downloads. You'll also have access to an exclusive forum where you can interact with the teacher and with other students, as well as share your work and your course project, creating a community around the course.

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Photo Retouching for Advertising Still Lifes. Photography, and Video course by Karina Meza

Photo Retouching for Advertising Still Lifes

A course by Karina Meza
Photographer and digital retoucher. Tulsa, Chile.
Joined February 2017
  • 100% positive reviews (118)
  • 2088 students